FYI,
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From: Cornelius Kibelka <cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 21:34
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2019: New name, new concept,
eligbility criteria
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Cc: <wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de>
Dear all,
As Nicole Ebber already wrote a couple of weeks ago, we would like to give
you some further information about the next Wikimedia Conference, that will
take place from March 29–31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
The next conference will focus on the Movement Strategy process and
movement governance for the organized part of the movement in general. The
program will be designed according to the status and needs of the ongoing
Movement Strategy process and its working groups. We are hoping to see a
diverse group of participants next year, and look forward to creating three
days of working, discussing, and thinking together. The event is made
possible through the generous financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thus, to make it clearer that learning and capacity-building will not be
part of the program and cut laces to the previous conference, we will
change the name to “Wikimedia Summit” (#wmsummit).
The change of the purpose of the event is accompanied by a change in the
composition of the audience. The event will be a more focused one, and
therefore we aim to scale down the audience to around 200 participants. As
it is this still the Wikimedia affiliates conference, every _eligible_
affiliate can send one (1) delegate. Furthermore, we will invite
participants from the Wikimedia Affiliate EDs (~10), WMF Board of Trustees
(10), WMF staff (~10), the committees (~15 from FDC, AffCom and Simple APG)
and additional members of the Movement Strategy working groups, that do not
come in another role (~20). You can find more information regarding this on
Meta.[1]
Registration for the Wikimedia Summit will open on November 2 and end on
December 17, 2018. We urge participants that need a visa to register no
later than November 19, so we can support them as best as possible to get a
visa for the event.
We will keep you updated in the further weeks and months via the usual
communication channels. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate
to contact us, preferably via wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de.
Best regards,
Daniela Gentner & Cornelius Kibelka
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria
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Greetings all,
I came across this on the Wikidata mailing list and believe it should be
shared here.
Regards,
M.
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Today's Topics:
1. Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors
(Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:18:37 +0200
From: Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: [Wikidata] Participate in research to support Wikipedia
editors
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Hello everyone,
We are PhD researchers at the University of Southampton working on
supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia with the help of
Wikidata information.
We need your help! We work on generating text and want to understand how to
support editors when creating new articles. We are currently conducting a
series of interviews to understand the needs of the community better.
We are looking for editors of Wikipedia, that would be available to do said
interviews remotely (via google hangout or skype) in English. (The editing
will still be in your native language of course.) We focus on
under-resourced languages, meaning any but the top 5 Wikipedias in terms of
article and editor count.
It should take about 30 minutes of your time and would get us a better
insight into how to support small-language communities better.
The interviews will take place in the next two weeks. All of the data will
be anonymized.
Please find more information in the Participant Information Sheet:
https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews-
Participant-Information-Sheet.md
If you want to participate and help us improving access to Wikipedia for
under-resourced language communities, just send me an E-Mail at
kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk or sign up to be contacted here:
https://goo.gl/forms/gL9wPuYAt8zcpVbA3 You don’t need any prior experience
beside Wikipedia editing.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks,
Lucie (User:Frimelle)
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Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
Web and Internet Science Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Hi all,
some will be aware that Wikidata's birthday is approaching and there will
be events scattered across the globe. Reuben and I have been in touch with
Lea in Berlin to co-ordinate and have created this discussion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup>.
At the moment the question is whether to incorporate this into the monthly
hackathon or hold a separate event. Carmen, one of the UCT librarians who
was at Wikimania, has offered to arrange a venue on campus if desired but
any other venue ideas are welcome (bearing in mind that the American Corner
is fussy about food & drink).
Regards,
M.
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*Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT)*
*Researcher, Editor &*
*Community Informatics Practitioner*
keybase.io/michaelgraaf
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